05/07/2017

Sage Advice for Young Farmers

Alice Waters. Wendell Berry. Eliot Coleman. These are just a few of the food and farming luminaries who have lavished the next generation with words of wisdom, at the behest of Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. The New York nonprofit compiled the responses in a new book, Letters to a Young Farmer, excerpted and adapted here.

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